Racing the Daunting Slope Chapter 4

"Flynn Hu is not feeling well today." When school was over, Milo Jiang looked at Flynn Hu, who was walking a few steps ahead of them.

"What's wrong?" Sawyer Huo glanced at the back of Flynn Hu's head, "If I don't want to talk to you guys, I'll go ahead."

"That's not it," Milo Jiang said, "He talked too little today, which is abnormal."

"Well," Carter Xu nodded, "I also think he came late today."

"Do you want to ask?" Sawyer Huo said.

"Don't ask yet. If he doesn't tell you tomorrow, ask again." Carter Xu said.

"Okay," Sawyer Huo stretched, "Are you free tonight?"

"What time?" Carter Xu asked.

"12 o'clock." Sawyer Huo said.

"Sh!t, I don't have time. I fell asleep for three rounds at 12 o'clock," Milo Jiang said, "What are you going to do at that time? Night training?"

"I won't accompany you for night training." Carter Xu said immediately.

"Go to the ghost building." Sawyer Huo said.

"Are you studying in the evening?" Milo Jiang asked, "Why are you pretending to be a good student?"

"Your good student goes to school at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night for self-study!" Sawyer Huo frowned, "Go to a real ghost building."

"What?" Milo Jiang was stunned.

"What?" Carter Xu asked at the same time as him.

Flynn Hu, who was walking in front, also turned around: "Are you sick?"

"Just tell me who is free to accompany me," Sawyer Huo said, "I made an appointment with Grayson Kou to go to the Ghost Tower."

"Then it's okay if Grayson Kou stays with you." Milo Jiang said.

"Get out!" Sawyer Huo pointed at him.

"Grayson Kou," Carter Xu looked at Milo Jiang, "it's Grayson Kou."

"Damn? Grayson Kou? You made an appointment with him to go to the ghost building? What are you doing? You should have said it earlier, just block him in the classroom and prevent him from leaving, and that would be the end of it," Milo Jiang said with a face full of hatred, what are you doing? It was the expression of a fool, "Why are you going to the ghost building with him! Ghost! Building! Ghost!"

"I won't go back to the dormitory until next week. What excuse do you have to come out tonight?" Carter Xu asked.

"Night training," Sawyer Huo said, "Besides, my parents fell asleep at eleven o'clock, and they couldn't hear me jumping rope in the living room."

"The date you two made is definitely not just for fun. It's a bet or a fight. Does the rule require someone to accompany you?" Carter Xu asked again.

"The rule of the fart is not to accompany me into the ghost house," Sawyer Huo gritted his teeth, "Just scare Grayson Kou out before 1 o'clock. To be precise, just let him go out before me."

Several people looked at him together, and it took Milo Jiang a long time before he said, "Does this count as cheating?"

"Forget it," Sawyer Huo patted him on the shoulder, "and it's more difficult than taking out cheat sheets from the steel pipe of the table leg in your test. Do you accept this challenge?"

"It's the chair legs." Carter Xu corrected him.

"Do you accept it?" Sawyer Huo asked.

"I don't want to accept it," Milo Jiang said, "If I go, there is only one reason, that is, I am afraid that something will happen to you."

Sawyer Huo stepped forward and hugged Milo Jiang.

The September night was quite comfortable. Grayson Kou leaned against the stone tablet in front of the ghost building and looked at the road in front of him with headphones in his ears.

It was quite dark all around. Before 10 o'clock, the light on the playground in the distance was still on. After 10 o'clock, there was only moonlight, and everything seemed to have faded.

When it was five minutes before 12 o'clock, a figure appeared at the far end of the road and walked slowly towards this side.

It must have been Sawyer Huo. Grayson Kou sat up straight, took off his headphones and put them back in his pocket, preparing to get up.

But the man walked this way for a while and then stopped. After standing there for a while, he seemed to be picking out his pocket. Then Grayson Kou saw the light of the phone screen, and then the light of the flashlight on the phone also turned on. Photo over here.

But the distance was a bit far, and the little light obviously couldn't shine on Grayson Kou's side.

He made a sound and really didn't understand why Sawyer Huo was so brave and dared to agree to him coming to the ghost house in the middle of the night. He took out the lighter, put it under his chin, and after thinking about it, he stuck out his teeth.

Then he lit the lighter.

As the firelight illuminated his teeth-baring face from below, the light from the phone over there went out, but before he could make a sound, a bright light hit his eyes.

"Sawyer Huo, I'll Fcuk you, uncle!" Grayson Kou cursed and quickly covered his eyes with his arms.

You actually have a bright flashlight! Just looking at his face like this, his whole body felt like he was about to ascend to heaven, covered in white flowers.

Sawyer Huo was silent over there, but he did not move the light away. No matter which direction he turned his face, the light moved with him.

Finally, Grayson Kou gave up the resistance, covered his eyes with his arms, and listened to Sawyer Huo's footsteps until he walked up to him.

"Grayson Kou, I'm your uncle." Sawyer Huo turned off the flashlight and said.

Grayson Kou felt that for a minute, the surrounding scenery slowly began to appear in front of his eyes.

"Why the hell are you brave?" He stood up and saw Sawyer Huo's face clearly, "Why don't you just change the time and make an appointment at noon..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound from the ghost building behind him.

Crunch------

Grayson Kou suddenly turned his head and glanced upstairs. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. There were some places where it was completely black and white when he looked over. His eyesight probably hadn't fully recovered yet.

Sawyer Huo's bright flashlight turned on again, this time shining on the ghost building.

The ghost building is indeed very old, an ancient style, with three floors. Below is a corridor that goes up layer by layer. There are rooms lined up in the corridor. The windows are all broken. Only the window frames are left, and spider webs are hanging on them. ...Looking at the structure, there should be a cloister with a patio in the middle, but you can't see it without going inside.

These are Grayson Kou's impressions of the ghost building when he came to see it before.

It wasn't what he saw now. All he could see now was the circle illuminated by Sawyer Huo's flashlight. The circle was filled with black and white chaos. It took him several glances to see where the window was.

But compared to not being able to understand, being able to understand was more frightening. Twenty different ways for ghosts to appear in the empty window flashed through my mind.

"Turn that thing off," Grayson Kou said. "It's scarier than being in the dark."

Sawyer Huo turned off the flashlight: "Are you afraid? It's too late to admit defeat now. Don't worry, I won't let you run away if you lose..."

"Let's go." Grayson Kou interrupted him, turned around and walked towards the building.

Sawyer Huo looked at his back, hesitating for a second between "Should I follow him in?" and "The accomplices should not be in place yet. What was that sound? Will it be more dangerous if I stay here?" He quickly looked at Grayson Kou's back. When he disappeared, he quickly followed.

When they reached the ghost building, Sawyer Huo was about to ask whether he should go upstairs or go to the first floor first. Grayson Kou turned around suddenly and slapped him on the shoulder.

Sawyer Huo admitted that he was so frightened for a moment that he almost turned around and ran away, but he was proud of himself. He controlled it, and to embolden himself, he even shouted: "What are you doing------"

"Holy Sh!t!" Grayson Kou took a step back, "What did you yell? You scared me!"

"Why the hell are you filming me! You have no mouth!" Sawyer Huo said.

"If you don't mind, it's okay for me to touch you with my mouth." Grayson Kou said.

"Idiot," Sawyer Huo scolded, "I don't want to argue with you now, tell me why you're filming me!"

"I just..." Grayson Kou said as he glanced into the window on the first floor and lowered his voice, "I just..."

Sawyer Huo followed him nervously and looked inside, feeling the hairs on his body standing up and blowing in the wind.

"I saw someone inside." After Grayson Kou said this, he ran upstairs without stopping for a second.

When Sawyer Huo came to his senses, Grayson Kou's shadow disappeared after a creaking sound on the stairs.

He suddenly felt a little uneasy and looked around. Carter Xu and the others were hiding somewhere. They were hiding so professionally. Looking at the scene as quiet as a ghost movie, Sawyer Huo felt that they were not there at all. Come!

Thinking of this, Sawyer Huo couldn't stand anymore and ran upstairs: "Grayson Kou! You didn't say before that you wanted to scare each other!"

Grayson Kou didn't respond.

Sawyer Huo stood at the dark staircase on the second floor and stepped back, leaning his back against the corner pillar, so that he could theoretically see people or...things coming from both directions.

But in fact, you can't even see farts.

When he took out his cell phone, Grayson Kou's voice sounded a few meters away from him: "Come here."

"No." He answered simply.

"Then I'm leaving." Grayson Kou said.

"Where are you?" Sawyer Huo asked immediately, lighting up the phone screen and taking a photo.

"Here." Grayson Kou leaned his head in the corridor and waved to him.

Sawyer Huo walked over, and Grayson Kou stuffed the phone back into his pocket: "Don't light up the phone."

"Huh?" Sawyer Huo heard something wrong in his voice.

"You hear it." Grayson Kou whispered.

"Did you fart?" Sawyer Huo immediately held his breath, "Are you childish?"

"I smell the fire, you idiot." Grayson Kou lowered his voice and said in his ear.

Sawyer Huo hesitated for a moment and took a breath. Sure enough, he could smell the smell of firewood, but...

"It's not surprising that someone was burning firewood," Sawyer Huo whispered, "it smells like someone used a fire a few hours ago. It's almost dinner time."

Grayson Kou looked at him.

"Believe me," Sawyer Huo said, "you were not in junior high school when I was using wood to make a fire in the field."

"I eat barbecue every day." Grayson Kou said.

"That's carbon, that's firewood, idiot." Sawyer Huo said.

Grayson Kou said nothing and looked at him. After a while, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked behind him.

There was a long corridor behind him. Sawyer Huo suddenly felt as if there was a refrigerator with the door open on his back. He felt a chill. He straightened his back suddenly and subconsciously moved forward.

Grayson Kou looked at him, his face blurred, but he could still see the flash of ridicule.

"Don't worry," Sawyer Huo said, "I'm a little scared, but I won't go out."

"Call me when you're scared," Grayson Kou said. "You don't even dare to look back. Do you want me to walk behind you?"

"No." Sawyer Huo said immediately.

"I won't poke you suddenly." Grayson Kou said.

"I don't believe it," Sawyer Huo tilted his head, "You go first."

Grayson Kou smiled and walked towards the corridor on the second floor, followed by Sawyer Huo. When he passed there, he should be able to see the corner of the corridor. He planned to go around first to check the situation.

According to Sawyer Huo's theory that "everyone is afraid of ghosts, but they are just pretending", he concluded that Grayson Kou was also afraid, but Grayson Kou was used to pretending, so to walk so easily at this moment was just because he was too deep into the drama.

He is more sincere, he is afraid, but he can bear it.

And he had accomplices.

Colleagues... Sawyer Huo looked back behind him. There was only one road, from the playground to the ghost building, and from the first floor to the third floor of the ghost building. So at this moment, Carter Xu and the others could only walk on later.

But what made Sawyer Huo uneasy was that there was no movement from behind. The slightest movement came from the front. No matter how he thought about it, he felt that there was something wrong with this building.

When I was thinking about where my accomplice was and wanted to send a message to ask, there was a sudden creak above my head.

Grayson Kou, who was walking gracefully in front of him, suddenly stopped. Sawyer Huo also stopped, turned around, and turned his back to Grayson Kou.

Your back must be facing the person, and your back must not be empty.

This building, like their teaching building, has all-wooden floors. It's not surprising that it creaks when walking, but it must have a certain weight to make this sound. Besides, this sound...

"Did you bring someone here?" Grayson Kou asked from behind.

Sawyer Huo was very shameless, but he couldn't let up his words: "You're the one who led the fucking people..."

"Carter Xu!" Grayson Kou raised his head and called out.

"Fcuk." Sawyer Huo turned around.

"Milo Jiang!" Grayson Kou continued, "Flynn Hu! Come down and play cards. Four more than one. The loser will stand aside and give someone a squeeze."

Sawyer Huo had confidence in Carter Xu's IQ, but Milo Jiang and Flynn Hu were unreliable. After Grayson Kou said this, thinking that these two might show up... he immediately didn't want to talk.

But after Grayson Kou finished speaking, the surroundings were silent and there was no sound.

"There's someone upstairs." Grayson Kou said.

"Yeah." Sawyer Huo suddenly felt that those three really weren't here.

The security duty room at night looks no different from that during the day. The air is filled with the smell of smoke and instant noodles.

But the mood is still not the same.

"Really running? Are you going to run on the school playground in the middle of the night?" The security guard sighed and slowly drank the tea in the cup.

"It's really a night run." Carter Xu said.

"The running shoes we all wear," Flynn Hu raised his legs and showed off the new shoes he bought during the summer vacation, "just for running."

"You students usually wear running shoes..." the security guard said and glanced at their feet.

Carter Xu followed him and looked down. Milo Jiang, who was standing behind, took a step back. Carter Xu was helpless. Milo Jiang was wearing sneakers.

"You don't need to tell me your class and name," the security uncle took a notebook and wrote down, "I know your name is Carter Xu, you and the school basketball captain, you two are in a suit, always together, tomorrow I will It will be reported to your class teacher. Please tell your class teacher the details. "

"Uncle, you are like this..." Milo Jiang struggled a little.

"Okay," Carter Xu replied immediately, "we will explain it to Teacher Yuan tomorrow."

"Well," the security guard stood up, "I'll take you out and call a car home."

"...No need." The three people replied at the same time.

No need, uncle, our partner is still in the ghost building. He can survive alone in the wild for a month, but the single-player copy of the ghost building may not last twenty minutes. Uncle, let us go by ourselves. We can also go around the back door and climb over the wall. Save him from fire and water.

"Let's go!" The security guard waved his hand.

Carter Xu looked at Milo Jiang and Flynn Hu and walked out of the security room.

After bowing his head and walking out of the school gate, Carter Xu suddenly ran away. Milo Jiang and Flynn Hu followed him almost at the same time. After ten meters, the three of them walked to the right in unison, which was the closest direction to the back door.

"Want to go up and have a look?" Grayson Kou asked.

"What are you looking at?" Sawyer Huo wanted to know if you were fucking sick. You knew there shouldn't be anyone up there, but now there is someone. Go up and catch the thief.

"You really didn't bring anyone with you?" Grayson Kou asked again.

Sawyer Huo was a little hesitant. He really brought someone with him, but he couldn't say it, but he felt that it was really not Carter Xu and the others up there, but if it was really them... he would be so embarrassed that his face was like a full moon.

At this moment, there was another sound on the top of the building. This time the sound moved a meter or two toward the stairs.

"I really didn't bring anyone with me." Sawyer Huo raised his head suddenly and whispered.

They could definitely be heard upstairs when they spoke, and it was definitely not Carter Xu and the others who could make noise at this time.

There is someone else upstairs, and this person is walking towards the stairs.

Sawyer Huo's hair stood up slowly and neatly.

"Damn," Grayson Kou said with excitement in his voice, "go up and have a look."

Sawyer Huo stood still.

Grayson Kou took two steps and then stopped: "You wait here, or..."

He pointed to the stairs and whispered, "Run out of the stairs before that person comes down."

After saying this, Grayson Kou rushed over there. It seemed that he wanted to block the people who were coming down from the stairs on the third floor.

Sawyer Huo stood in the darkness in shock and forgot to be afraid. Only now did he realize that Grayson Kou seemed not to be afraid of ghosts.

But after Grayson Kou rushed out a few steps, he suddenly shouted: "Ah------"

Then he fell back and sat on the ground.

The floorboards creaked.

Not knowing whether he wanted to save someone or was afraid of finding someone to get together with, Sawyer Huo rushed over and tried to drag Grayson Kou up. In his panic, he saw a white figure coming from the small platform at the entrance of the stairs on the second and third floors. It floated out and disappeared without making a sound.

"Ah------" He belatedly shouted two seconds after Grayson Kou finished shouting.

"Holy Sh!t," Grayson Kou jumped up and ran over, "Is that a person?"

Sawyer Huo didn't know how he had the courage to run over immediately, but for the sake of face, he had to walk over slowly: "I didn't see clearly."

"Let's go," Grayson Kou pulled his collar, "I was really shocked."

"Okay." Sawyer Huo nodded immediately. He didn't want to stay here for a second.

The two of them walked down the stairs and looked around, but they didn't see anything moving.

What the hell is that?

Walking to the bottom of the stairs, Sawyer Huo sighed, that's okay, we came out together, there is no winner or lose, it's a draw...

Grayson Kou stopped suddenly, but Sawyer Huo didn't stop. He stepped forward while watching him go back one flight of stairs.

"You lost." Grayson Kou said.

"What?" Sawyer Huo was shocked.